SC - Corwyn Steps Down

[Ann & Les Shelton]

I have rarely seen events with the feast included. Personally, I won't cook
a feast under those conditions. There is no way to gauge how much food to
buy (Are you buying to feed 200 and only 50 show up? that is a loss of
money. And there is the other side to the coin... buy for 100 and 300 show
up!).

Most events here in Bryn Gwlad the feast is separate.  I can think of one
Candlemas, the feast was included (it was a side board that was served all
afternoon).  It was an interesting experiment. I still prefer just doing a
feast.

As for feast menus.  I try to have a variety. This last feast I did only one
dish contained pork.  The other meat dishes were chicken and fish.  The
vegetable dishes were kept vegetarian.

One suggestion on helping newer cooks plan a feast... assign them a mentor.
The mentor can help guide the new cook to make better choices... reviewing
the menu, assisting with budget planning, etc.  We've done that here in Bryn
Gwlad and it has worked.

Meadhbh
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Morgan Cain <morgancain at earthlink.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 6:56 AM
Subject: SC - Troll booths, fees, and random opinion


> Hi, y'all.  I'm back.  After a computer meltdown and job change, I've
gotten
> back online and am slowly hooking into all the lists again.  Seems some of
> them were breeding while I was off-line, too.
>
> I'll be at Gulf Wars but arrive late on Friday (it's not one of my flex
> Fridays and I'm saving the little vacation I get for Lilies and Pennsic).
> If you want to meet me, I teach on Saturday; they keep moving the times so
> just look at the onsite schedule.
>
> As for the term "troll," I always thought it came from the story about The
> Three Billy Goats Gruff.  Do you remember it from childhood?  The three
> billy goats have to get across the bridge where the mean troll lives and
> pulls billy goats (and other creatures) down to be eaten.
>
> About fees, I remain astonished (after two years) that in Ansteorra the
> feast fee is included in the site fee.  Most of the time I have to look on
> it as an additional donation to the group because I cannot eat feast due
to
> (1) all the meat in it is pork (the time this happened, I could eat the
> mushroom salad, apple moyse, cheese and fresh apples, and luckily I like
> apples; it is now one of my examples in the "How to Plan a Feast" class),
or
> (2) I have to be someplace about feast time and don't make it back to eat
> anything.  (Last 12th Night I commuted between Dallas and the site three
> times.  Missed the pizza in Dallas and the feast at site.  Thank goodness
> for the dried fruit and granola bars I always keep in the car for such
> emergencies!)  I asked one time when I saw that there was no site-only fee
> and got a long and somewhat snotty message that "it's the way Ansteorra
does
> things, it's easier on the cooks to assume that everybody will eat feast
and
> this way we don't look inhospitable by telling some people that they
cannot
> eat feast because we are limiting the numbers."  So I gave up and decided
> that Ansteorrans are lazy with math.
>
> (Oh, hi, Your Excellency!)
>
> They do a family cap, which I guess helps the larger families, but I
wonder
> about those with dietary restrictions or very finicky children who refuse
to
> eat anything that doesn't involve cartoon characters.  Just seems unfair
to
> me to force people to pay for food they cannot eat.
>
> I've lived and travelled in most Kingdoms, and Ansteorra is the only one I
> know of that has a Kingdom-wide (as I was told, I mostly do camping events
> here or things that don't have a feast) policy of putting the two costs
> together and no option for site-only.  On occasion a group in another
> Kingdom will do it but it's usually a low amount and a simple meal.
>
> (I am also of the opinion that anybody who charges double-digits for a
meal
> doesn't know how to budget, is trying to cover for an excessively
expensive
> site, or is trying to make a pile of money, but this message is long
enough
> for a first message back.)
>
>                                         ---= Morgan
>
>
> PS:  I gave up bubblegum for Lent.  Not Catholic but I figure it's a good
> exercise.
>
>
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